World newsChild prostitutes available at $100 a night: the human cost of junta's repressionMilitary officials profiting from sex industry as sleazy trade flourishes amid poverty and misrule, say international campaignersThis is a side of life the Burmese military junta might prefer you did not see: girls who appear to be 13 and 14 years old paraded in front of customers at a nightclub where a beauty contest thinly veils child prostitution.

The ObserverAppsInterviewDan Gardner wanted to know when to go to the loo during films – so he built an appAnugraha SundaraveluThe developer of RunPee, the app that tells cinemagoers the best time to take a loo break, on what makes a good ‘peetime’ and how the program helped him meet his wife Created out of personal necessity by North Carolina-based developer Dan Gardner during a near three-and-a-half-hour King Kong screening, RunPee is an app that tells film audiences the best times to nip to the loo.

Ask Annalisa BarbieriFamilyAnnalisa Barbieri advises a reader on her problemI have two daughters. The younger is two: beautiful, smiley, gets everyone to do what she wants. The elder is five: intelligent, sensitive, kind and more like me. The problem is that I never liked me. I grew up with a lot of criticism from my parents, who thought I needed to be perfect. In certain aspects, I turned out OK, but in others I still have problems.

Maggie O’Farrell. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The GuardianMaggie O’Farrell. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The GuardianJane GardamReviewJane Gardam admires Maggie O’Farrell’s lucid account of madness and incarceration, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell 256pp, Headline Review, £14.99 Maggie O'Farrell's new novel is a short book about a long life and has the dream-like intensity of imagination and the gift of conveying pain, fear and sometimes rapture for which 0'Farrell is known.

Seascape: the state of our oceansWhales This article is more than 8 months oldWhales take up to two hours to die after being harpooned, Icelandic report findsThis article is more than 8 months oldFood and veterinary authority report questions whether hunting large whales can meet animal welfare objectives Whales have taken as long as two hours to die during Icelandic hunts, according to a report by the Icelandic food and veterinary authority.